Chapter II. 259. The human heart is unpredictable
Since the moment the flame of human civilization was ignited, the concept of collaboration has been implanted in everyone's blood. In the face of the attack of powerful beasts, the invasion of foreign tribes and other critical moments, human beings will freely form an organization or group in the form of a family or a tribe: either for self-protection or for profit. Today, although there are many different expressions and expressions, the root of it is also covered by the word "cooperation".
In times of peace, the reason for cooperating with others is mostly for profit; And since cooperation will generate benefits, different distribution methods and distribution ratios will also bring unexpected accidents to the 'cooperating parties'.
However, when interests and life are opposed, the word interests are not so important, after all, only by living can we have the opportunity to enjoy benefits. Although there are also 'ruthless people' who want money and don't want to die, most of them are stupid people who didn't even foresee the danger coming.
is like Li Cai in the City God Temple today, since he can think of such a ruthless means to accumulate wealth, it is absolutely impossible for him to be a hero who regards death as home. Nor is this conclusion arbitrary, because it is impossible for anyone who disregards the lives of others in exchange for profit to also disregard his own lives.
"I'm going to buy my life! I'm going to buy my life! Don't help the master, you make a price, open a price! Don't look at me Li Cai is just a little housekeeper, but I can afford to pay as much money as I want! ”
When Li Cai heard this, he immediately stopped pretending to cry and sell his old age to win sympathy.
Because from the conversations of these people, he can hear that these people in the City God Temple today are all ruthless characters who will not 'respect the old and respect the virtuous'; even if he cries blind with a pair of old eyes, he will definitely be punished......
Shen Gui looked at Mrs. Wu with a complaining face, and then at the eager little one-armed man with a fanatical face, and said to Li Cai with a rather embarrassed expression:
"This request of your old man makes me very embarrassed! First of all, I am not short of silver...... Secondly, I also have an appointment with your wife, if I let you live at this time, won't you become a faithless villain? And if I don't cut off your old man's head, I won't be able to give an account to my master if I go back...... Master Li, you are also living at such an old age, you are almost done! The little one-armed, cut off Master Li's tongue first! I'm just too soft-hearted to hear an old man of this age begging me for mercy......"
"What do you want? As long as the little old man can do it, you can put it forward! Anything goes! I don't ask for anything else, just a life, young man...... I promise, as long as you can let the old man go, beat me out of the temple gate, there will be no more people like Li Cai on Youbei Third Road......"
Li Cai said words begging for mercy in his mouth, while reaching out and groping left and right on the ground, before Shen Gui could reply, he found a sharp diamond-shaped stone, and without even hitting it, he desperately drew a path on his face, and while paddling, he still endured the pain and smiled flatteringly at Shen Gui:
"You see, in this way, no one will recognize the little old man...... No one recognizes it......"
Shen Guiwan didn't expect that he would casually say a few words of gossip, Li Cai, an old dog, would make such a big investment! Although it makes no difference whether he is disfigured or disfigured by his old face, but he hasn't moved a finger from him, and this old man is so ruthless that he takes the initiative to harm himself? The desire to win is too strong!
"Hmm...... If I can get the errand, it's not impossible to let you go...... Let me tell you the truth, my family master is not very satisfied with your Li family, so he sent me to the Great Wilderness City, wanting to find some handles to hold in his hands, so that he can handle the Li Cheng in the capital in the future. I don't know if you, Mr. Li, do you have any 'good goods' to recommend? ”
"Yes, yes, yes! Little old man, I don't have any other skills, I really have everything like this 'good goods'...... If you can let me go, I still have ...... in my study."
"Are these books what your old man is talking about? Hey, are you trying to buy your own life with 'mine' things? This trick 'empty gloves white wolf' you play high! ”
Shen Gui sneered and threw the 'borrowed' account books to the ground, Li Cai first glanced at the top cover, and then counted a little, the old face full of blood and flowers on all sides suddenly changed, and he rushed towards Mrs. Wu with teeth and claws, and roared and scolded in his mouth:
"Slut! Poisonous woman! It's just that you raise a wild man, and you actually stole all the life-saving straw from the master to the wild ...... Father...... Since you want to kill the old man, then you slut don't want to live......"
In terms of the 'impact' of Li Cai's age, Shen Gui just raised his foot at random and kicked his old bones sideways several steps away; Unexpectedly, after this Li Cai rolled to the ground, instead of exhaling pain, he quickly got up again and stubbornly threw himself towards Mrs. Wu......
"I didn't expect you to be quite unyielding... I'll be honest for a moment, and I'll ask you a few questions first. If you answered well...... It's not that you can't consider putting ......"
"Okay young man!"
As soon as Li Cai heard that his old life might still be delayed, he immediately knelt on the ground very obediently, and straightened his body straight from sixty years away, how well-behaved and well-behaved.
"Why did those Nankang business groups you were responsible for receiving come here?"
Shen Gui was too lazy to grind his teeth with this shameless old man, so he asked the key point with one mouth.
"Young Helper, you are well-informed! These Nankang business groups are all here for a harmful cargo of the 'their' Li family! You don't know it, Li Gao's old coffin is really lacking in eight generations of great virtues, and he actually wants to be in the ......."
"I know, you're talking about the cargo Elephant Valley, or Fleur Cream. These things have spread all over Youbei, and you want to exchange this news for your old life? Based on the gold content of this news, I will at most shave your head first, and then slaughter you...... Because your news is worth the price, and you don't have a few hairs left on your head......"
"Don't, don't! Li Gao's old dog instructed the little old man to secretly peddle elephant valley to them and seek huge profits for himself......"
"Isn't that right? The land in your Great Wilderness City is numerous, and the output of the Elephant Valley is also fixed, since Yan Tian and Di Ting are promised, where can you sell the excess Elephant Valley to the Nankang Business Group? ”
As soon as Li Cai heard that Shen Gui was like a treasure about this matter, his expression immediately changed: As the saying goes, people are old and fine, horses are old and slippery, rabbits are old and eagles are difficult to take; Li Cai, the old dog, originally planned to say something casually to get by, but now according to Shen Gui's statement, the information that people originally grasped was really a lot compared to the inventory in his stomach. In this way, Li Cai, who was eager to survive, could only sigh and said quietly:
Li Gao wanted to give this year's harvest of Xianggu to four families: one for Nan Kangdi, one for the crown prince Yan Day, one for his own grandson Lin Sanlin, and one for his own profit; Of course, with such a division, if there is more than half of the elephant valley, it will not be enough; So Li Gao put the idea on the prince's share......"
Shen Gui sneered when he heard this, and in his heart, he felt that Li Cai, an old dog, was not telling the truth at all:
"Nonsense! Li Gao's old man also planned to use His Majesty Yan Tian after ascending the throne to force Li Deng to give up the position of head of the family in advance, so as to share this large share of the 'extinct property'; But if according to your statement, you have deducted the cigarette paste of your future majesty, is it possible that Li Gao is not going to continue to mix in Youbei Third Road? ”
Shen Gui said this, and before Li Cai could explain, Li Le'an opened his mouth to explain:
"It's not impossible...... If Li Gao sat on the throne of the head of the family justifiably, why did he have to recognize Yan Tian, the titular emperor? Don't forget, the three roads in Youbei have just been invaded by war recently, and all the people and horses have suffered heavy losses, but only the 40,000 'guardians' in the hands of the Li family have never lost a single soldier......
"Yes, yes, this girl is so right! Li Gao's old dog has long had the intention of establishing himself as the king! He also lashed out at the head of the family more than once at the clan meeting, saying that the prime minister was taking the blood-earned money of the Li family's children to plug the bottomless pit of his Yan family! In the past hundred years, if there were no Yan and Guo families, my Li family would have been rich in the world...... He also said......"
Shen Gui looked at Li Cai, who was 'dancing with his eyebrows and the buyer seeking to survive', and had physiological nausea for no reason. So he immediately raised his right foot, stepped Li Cai's right wrist on the ground, gently bent down and grabbed his middle finger, and gently broke it back......
'Click......'
An extremely crisp sound of bones breaking echoed in this ruined temple. Li Cai seemed to be stunned by the sudden sharp pain, first staring at the index finger of his right hand that had been twisted and deformed, and was just about to open his mouth to scream, and then was slashed on his throat by Shen Gui with a wave of his hand......
Shen Gui still knew the severity of his hand, if not, he would easily smash Li Cai's throat with this knife.
"You've lived so long that no one has ever told you? It's not a good habit for you to interject when people talk...... What I'm asking you is, what are the ...... of those Nankang business groups?"
Shen Gui looked coldly at Li Cai, who was rolling around on the ground and covering his throat with his uninjured left hand, waiting for his 'self-regulation' to take effect.
"Ahem...... Cough...... They are Li Gaoxuan's partners...... Vomit...... The person in charge of the merchant group is a giant merchant in Guangling City in Nankang, and it seems that his surname is Shen ......"
"The Shen family's business group? Well...... I know. Li Cai, are you literate? ”
"Recognize...... But I can't write ...... now."
Li Cai replied to Shen Gui's words while pitifully erecting the distorted index finger. Shen Gui looked at his masterpiece, and was a little embarrassed, scratched his head and said:
"But if you want to live, why do you have to leave me a handwritten note? Otherwise...... Are you going to get over it? ”